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Immigration Regulations: IMC progress report; South African Tourism Review Report: Minister of Tourism briefing
6 Nov 2015
Mr Derek Hanekom, Minister of Tourism, briefed the Committee on the SA Tourism (SAT) Review Report. The scope of the Review covered SAT’s mandate, the strategy and performance of SAT, governance and organisational structure of SAT, stakeholder relations and the role of SAT in relation to other entities responsible for ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
3 Nov 2015
The Committee continued with the deliberation on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A UDM MP wanted to know how it was possible to make reference to sections 12 and ...
Tourism
iSiMangaliso Wetland Park briefing
30 Oct 2015
The iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority briefed the Committee on its background and activities.
In 1999 the Park was inscribed into the World Heritage List. It was considered a huge achievement and as a World Heritage Site needed to have outstanding universal value. Even the Kruger National Park was not declared ...
Tourism
Tourism Budget Review and Recommendations Report
28 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee adopted its Draft Budgetary Review Recommendations Report (BRRR) unamended.
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: clauses 12 to 24 deliberations, with Deputy Minister
27 Oct 2015
The Committee continued with deliberations on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A DA member pointed out that the factors that had been highlighted in clause 12(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works on its 2014/15 Annual Report, with Minister
14 Oct 2015
The Minister of Public Works explained to the Committee that the Department had been like a patient. It had gone from the levels of being terminally ill and hospitalized, to recuperating and has now been released with recommendations to keep up doctor visits. He used this analogy to explain the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: consideration with Deputy Minister
13 Oct 2015
The Department produced a Working Draft of the Bill that incorporated all the proposed amendments previously made by the Committee. The Deputy Minister indicated that the Department had introduced the definition of “disputing party” in clause 1, which indicated that the “ disputing party includes an owner, holder of an unregistered ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
22 Sep 2015
The Committee was told that five strategic goals had been identified by the Minister for the Department of Public Works (DPW). These were the creation of six million work opportunities through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), operationalisation of the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE), the operationalisation of the Governance ...
Tourism
Domestic Tourism: South African Tourism briefing
11 Sep 2015
South African Tourism (SA Tourism) briefed the Committee on its Domestic Tourism Marketing Strategy. The purpose of the briefing was to ensure that all questions pertaining to domestic tourism were dealt with. An executive summary of the Annual Performance Plan and Strategic Plan of SA Tourism was presented. The Committee ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
8 Sep 2015
The Deputy Minister of Public Works presented the latest version of the Expropriation Bill, with some amendments that had been proposed by the Committee or other commentators at earlier sessions. Members firstly wanted to clarify whether this Bill was not preventing other spheres of government from exercising expropriation powers, and ...